Wikis bring collaboration to the school, district, and community.
A wiki is a collaborative website that can be directly edited by anyone who has acces to it. Users can create, modify, and organize web content in a collaborative manner by using a standard web browser.
Perhaps the most widely known wiki network is **Wikipedia**, an encyclopedia begun by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001 as a project attempting to build a free encyclopedia on the Web to which anyone can contribute, change or add too.
A defining characteristic of wiki technology are that the wiki pages are easy to create, maintain, and update. Beyond this ease of editing, the second powerful element of a wiki is its ability to keep track of the history of a document as it is revised.
Wikis can be large and open to the public or small and only visible to selected participants.
Please grant me the serenity to accept the pages I cannot edit,
The courage to edit the pages I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference
- The Wiki Prayer (Richardson)
Reference:
Richardson, W. (2009). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms (2nd ed., pp. 55-68.). California: Corwin Press.
General Information about Wikis
The courage to edit the pages I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference
- The Wiki Prayer (Richardson)
Reference:
Richardson, W. (2009). Blogs, wikis, podcasts, and other powerful web tools for classrooms (2nd ed., pp. 55-68.). California: Corwin Press.